Since then I’ve left well alone”. “Right” said David “Then I think you’re in for some very pleasant surprises; come up to my room where I ...hink we shall be more comfortable”.On entering David’s bedroom and seeing David’s computer desk, games consul and wide screen TV Tim hesitated for a moment. “Are you ok” asked David. “I’m fine” said Tim “Just a bit nervous”. “Relax” said David “I’m not going to force you into any thing you’re not happy with, and just remember that you can leave whenever you. She brushed it away. “Don’t,” she said flatly. “Marilyn…” “Oh, shut up,” she said. “Shut up, for god’s sake.” She sat up in the bed beside him. She put her head in her hands. “How did you know you could do that?” she said then. He could hardly hear her. “How did you know you could just walk in here and… My god! It doesn’t even make any sense.” She looked at him now. . Rene smiled to herself when she heard her Dad’s grunt of acknowledgment. She moved what they had brought up in the first run into small piles she had designated as clothes, toiletries, school supplies, and miscellaneous stuff before heading downstairs to get the rest of her things.They returned, carrying the last of her clothes and small boxes, to an empty room. Unpacking and putting things in their place, along with the cleanup, took little to no time, and with her roommate still not back they. But she aged, the life simply departing, skin sagging from lost elasticity. I saw it in her eyes. She had no spark left in her. She lost weight. Even having Amelia in her life couldn’t compensate for the void in her soul.She knew it, too. On a Thursday evening, she visited me and made a strange request.Seating her in the living room, pouring her some Darjeeling tea - she seemed so frail and chilled now - she turned to me on the couch.“Michael, I don’t know if you know this, but I’m the only.